It has been a quiet couple of days. I have spent a little
too much time “playing games.” I put that in quotation marks because these are
the games that Heidi has prescribed: Rush Hour and Simon. I ordered a little
electronic Simon but that won’t arrive for a few more days. Meanwhile, the game
is available for free on-line, and I need to figure out how to download it onto
my Samsung Galaxy Note II so that I can play it while I’m waiting for
appointments and such. The Rush Hour game is really driving me nuts! I’ll
stumble on the solution, but then I can’t remember how I got there. So I can
keep working on the same configuration repeatedly and still not quite know how
to do it. There must be a trick to this but my brain has not yet figured it
out. Oh, right, that’s the whole point!
I was supposed to see my neurologist this morning but he
sent an e-mail late last night saying that he has to cancel to perform a lumbar
puncture on another patient. Talk about bringing back memories….my first couple
of days at Memorial Sloan-Kettering were spent in a battery of diagnostic
tests, including LP. Meanwhile, I still have an appointment with Heidi later
this morning and the last session of the writing class this afternoon, as well
as some shopping for Sabbath. We are going to be in Riverdale this week and are
having some friends over for lunch.
On Sunday we have tickets for a taping of “Wait Wait…Don’t
Tell Me” We are big fans of the show and had been to a taping in New York a few
years ago and really enjoyed it. If you’re not familiar with the show, check it
out at
The northeast is getting some much needed rain, quite a lot
of it. It has put a damper in our plans (so to speak) but all those wonderful
flowers will only happen if there is enough water.
Meanwhile, I am hoping that this week’s wet weather will help
insure dry weather for the Shavuot
holiday next week. Shavuot is a
wonderful holiday for vegetarians, because the tradition is to eat dairy foods.
This holiday, which comes seven weeks (shavuot
is the Hebrew word for weeks) after Passover, commemorates the giving of the Torah (Five Books of Moses) at Mount
Sinai. Included in the Torah are the
basics of the laws of Kashrut, laws relating
to food. In particular, there are instructions on which animals may be eaten,
and how they are to be slaughtered and prepared. Because the Jewish people were
rushing to leave Egypt at the time they received these instructions, there was
no time to properly prepare meat before their departure. Hence they ate dairy
foods, and this has continued as the tradition. So it is a favorite holiday of
vegetarians. My own particular favorites are quite traditional: blintzes and
cheesecake. Not to be immodest but I do make a mean cheesecake: the ingredients
are cream cheese, eggs, sugar, and vanilla, with a graham cracker crust and a sour
cream topping. It’s not the most heart-healthy fare but it’s only once a year,
so why not?
Love,
Rebecca
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